A sandwich at Lavender Bread & Cafe (San Pablo), a bakery in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +24.
Reads as a fully realized jambon-beurre, two of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)
Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.
fresh spelt baguette, served cold: smoked ham; butter; swiss.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.0 | 88th |
| acid | 0.0 | n/a |
| fat | 3.1 | 83rd |
| sweet | 0.3 | 37th |
| umami | 2.3 | 85th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
67 Balance, out of 100
The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.
What each layer brings
| Layer | Role | Flavor and texture | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| fresh spelt baguettescored as Baguette | bread | crispy soft flaky | the frame |
| smoked hamscored as Ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | −1 |
| butter | fat | fat 5 creamy silky | +12 |
| swissscored as Swiss Cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | 0 |
Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.
Pairings
- Baguette + Butter: the paris standard: sweet butter on crackling crust
- Ham + Butter: jambon-beurre: sweet butter on salty ham
- Ham + Swiss Cheese: cured pork and nutty swiss, an old alliance
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